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Genevieve Taylor

Genevieve is a British liason officer working for Europol in The Hague.

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When she sees an arrest warrant go out for the member of a Romanian gang she is tracking, she gets on the next train to Amsterdam and becomes centrally involved in the Natalie case. Genevieve goes head-to-head with Julien Baptiste who she sees as an interference, and a danger to the work she is doing.

We discover, however, that some very personal reasons draw Genevieve to this particular case.

Q&A with Jessica Raine

Tell us about Genevieve’s character - what is her background story?

She鈥檚 quite blunt and tactless and rubs people up the wrong way

Genevieve is an officer at Europol, heading up a team trying to get enough evidence together to nail a gang called the Brigada Serbilu, which concerns itself with human trafficking. She’s quite blunt and tactless and rubs people up the wrong way when she’s first introduced in the series, but she’s incredibly focused and determined to get the guy she needs to get. It’s a scary focus, as she doesn’t care how she treats everyone else.

Describe Genevieve’s relationship with Julien.

When Genevieve meets Julien you feel like she’s really marking her territory. She’s a little bit patronising and you feel like she’s definitely overriding him with the decision-making. She wants him out of the way even though she respects what he’s done in the past. Genevieve doesn’t have much time for Baptiste at the beginning, however, as the series progresses I think she really becomes much more respectful of him and his methods.

What's her relationship like with Edward?

With Edward, Genevieve is constantly trying to persuade him to do what she wants and doesn’t really think about what the consequences are for him. To her, he is someone who’s in way over his head - but she also sees him as an opportunity. It’s an opening for her that she hasn’t had before with this case, so she has to get him onside. But she is also quite irritated by him, so it is quite a fractious relationship - which has been really fun to play with Tom (Hollander).